The Hope pioneer., 1887-08-19
Political and Personal,

TreSluenC CleVOlanO WILL spend the last
week Of August at the West Virginia fishing
grounds as the guest Of Senator Kenna.
Postmaster General Villas left Washing
ton Wednesday for his home in Madison,
weeks.
Judge Edward W. Pettus of Alabama, is
now prominently mentioned as the successor
of Justice Woods on the United States
Supreme Court bench.
The Acting Attorney General, at Wash
ington, has appointed A. j. Clarke, of
Columbus, O., to be assistant to the United
States attorney for the district OF Utah.
Gen. George Custis Lee, president of the
Washington and Lee University, of Vir-
ginia, the oldest son of the late Gen. Robert
3. Lee, is lying dangerously ill at Ravens
worth.
In passing the accounts of the late chief
signal officer, Gen Hazen, Second Comptrol-
Ter Butler found that $276 was due Gen.
HaZen for quarters, but as an Offset to part
OF this he fonnd an over payment in 1854
of ST.
A statement prepared at the interior de-
partment shows that from Jan. 16, 1886, to
July /, 1887, there were 255 civil service
appointments made in that department,
exclusive of ~ transfers and one reinstate.
ment.
George M. Swain, of Iowa; Arthur A
Holmes, of Indiana; Lucien M. Turner, Of
Illinois; John S. McKiernan, of Penasylva-
mia, and John P. Stout, of Ohio, have been
appointed special examiners in the pension
office, under civil service rules.
An elaborate and handsome memorial,
bound in Turkish morocco, and containing
the signatures of the heads of the treasury
department and bureau officers, has been
sent to exSecretary Manning as souvenir
OF the sender's appreciation.
The Massachusetts Democratic state COM
mittee has decided to hold the State con-
vention at Worcester on Tuesday, Sept 90.
1t was decided that the convention should
choose four delegates and four alternates
to the next national Democratic convention,
At Tuscan, Arizona, the anniversary of
Geronimo's surrender to Gen. Miles has
been set apart as day for the presentation
OF sword to Gen. Miles. The sword will be
made by Tiffany y Co., Of New York, at a
tributed to the fund.
Bessie Washington Tompkins, daughter
of third cousin of Geo. Washington died
Tuesday night at the Grand Hotel New
York city. She was the daughter of George
A. washington, of Nashville, and wife of
ex7Judge Tompkins, of Georgia, and was
celebrated for her beauty.
The author of .'Grandfather's Clock'' died
recently in the University Hospital, London
The song is better known than the writer
of it, a Mr.. E. e. Bertrand, who tried again
and again but never afterward caught the
public taste. He was an actor, a theatrical
manager and dramatist.
Senator Riddleberger was released from
the Winchester, Va, jail, at 2 O'Clock in the
morning by 100 men from Edinburg, who
took the Senator by means Of ladders
placed e a at the upper windows, How far
l0o for contempt remains to be seen.
At 10 a. NJ, on the 18th, Amor Smith,
mayor of Cincinnati, was very quietly mar
ried to Miss Ida Sennet, at the residence of
the Rev. Rust, who otficiated. Mr.. Smith
has been widower thirteen years and has
several children, one of whom, Alvin, aged
twenty-three, a clerk in the probate court,
was so lncensed at his fathers marriage
tn that ne refused 10 attend the company.
The bride is aged thirty three. She was a
popular clerk in dry goods store on Race
street.
Controller Trenholm, who recently called
for National bank statements, says he finds
the monetary condition of the country
natural and healthy, and there isno cause
Ior any expectation of any stringency of
funds required for moving crops or for any
OF the legitemate and necessary demands Of